Center without Walls

presents

Urayoán
Noel
Urayoán Noel will be presenting his current book of poetry, Hi-Density
Politics. A contributing editor of Mandorla, he has translated a number of
Latin American and U.S. Latino poets. His creative and critical writings have
appeared in Contemporary Literature; Fence; BOMB; New York Quarterly; and
Diasporic Avant-Gardes; and he is featured in such anthologies as Malditos
latinos, malditos sudacas. Poesía hispanoamericana made in USA and The
Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry.

He is currently completing a book-length manuscript on Nuyorican poetry

since the 1960s. Born and raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico, he currently
divides his time between the South Bronx and upstate New York. Urayoán
Noel is Assistant Professor of English at the University at Albany, SUNY, where
he is also affiliated with the Department of Latin American, Caribbean, and
U.S. Latino Studies.

Saturday, March 12 • 1:00pm

Trinity College
Center for Urban & Global Studies
70 Vernon Street • Hartford
Sponsored by the CUGS Arts Committee